Airline record
South African Airways (SAA)
A structured South Africa airline record in the African Airlines Atlas.
Public text here is generated from fields, not copied encyclopedia prose.
Core record
- Country
- South Africa
- Years
- 1934 to operating at 1998 survey horizon
- Ownership
- State-owned
- Government involvement
- Full
- Service scope
- Domestic, Regional, Intercontinental
- Fleet size
- Not stated
- Employees
- 11,100
- Former colonial power
- Britain
- Settler classification
- Settler
- Decolonization category
- Negotiated
- Source confidence
- high
Provenance
- Entry number
- 573
- Source file
- OCR Scans Guttery/South Africa Entries.pdf
- Book page
- 168
- Confidence
- high
- Review flags
- Fleet Size
Destinations
Documented destination records
The dataset can contain duplicate destination rows from source extraction; this page lists unique city/scope combinations.
- JohannesburgSouth AfricaDomestic
- Cape TownSouth AfricaDomestic
- DurbanSouth AfricaDomestic
- Port ElizabethSouth AfricaDomestic
- BloemfonteinSouth AfricaDomestic
- East LondonSouth AfricaDomestic
- GeorgeSouth AfricaDomestic
- KimberleySouth AfricaDomestic
- UpingtonSouth AfricaDomestic
- HarareZimbabweRegional
- GaboroneBotswanaRegional
- LusakaZambiaRegional
- MaputoMozambiqueRegional
- NairobiKenyaRegional
- Dar es SalaamTanzaniaRegional
- WindhoekNamibiaRegional
- MauritiusMauritiusRegional
- BulawayoZimbabweRegional
- LilongweMalawiRegional
- BlantyreMalawiRegional
- LuandaAngolaRegional
- KinshasaDR CongoRegional
- AccraGhanaRegional
- AbidjanIvory CoastRegional
- Victoria FallsZimbabweRegional
- LondonUKIntercontinental
- FrankfurtGermanyIntercontinental
- AmsterdamNetherlandsIntercontinental
- ParisFranceIntercontinental
- RomeItalyIntercontinental
- MilanItalyIntercontinental
- ZurichSwitzerlandIntercontinental
- ViennaAustriaIntercontinental
- MunichGermanyIntercontinental
- DüsseldorfGermanyIntercontinental
- New YorkUSAIntercontinental
- AtlantaUSAIntercontinental
- MiamiUSAIntercontinental
- Buenos AiresArgentinaIntercontinental
- Rio de JaneiroBrazilIntercontinental
- São PauloBrazilIntercontinental
- SydneyAustraliaIntercontinental
- PerthAustraliaIntercontinental
- SingaporeSingaporeIntercontinental
- BangkokThailandIntercontinental
- Hong KongHong KongIntercontinental
- MumbaiIndiaIntercontinental
- DubaiUAEIntercontinental
- Tel AvivIsraelIntercontinental
Related records
More from South Africa
Cite this entry
South African Airways (SAA) (South Africa). In Ben Guttery, Encyclopedia of African Airlines (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998), p. 168. Via African Airlines Atlas / From Colonies to Carriers dataset, ed. Reese Hollister.